Boris Kovac

"In my creative work I build the HOUSE in which I am on my WAY to the BEING. My being."
Boris Kovac (from the book "Mirror of the Voice")

Boris Kovac, composer, instrumentalist and multimedia artist from Novi Sad, capital of the multiethnic region Vojvodina in former Yugoslavia, muses on the subject of his roots: "Our advantage is that people from 20 different nationalities live together in the Pannonian plains. So today no one can say which folklore my music stems from exactly. Me and my musicians - living in an urban situation, having no contact to the little villages in the country - we cannot retrace where the music comes from, It is anyway not necessary, I think. The crucial point is to use the sources as nourishment for your own creativity."

Whatever the sources, Boris Kovac's creativity is prodigious. Composer for theatre and film, director of the Ritual Nova Ensemble of multi-media artists, leader of the Ogledalo Music Theatre company, creator of "La Danza Apocalypsa Balcanica" with the LADAABA Orchest and the follow-up project, "La Campanella" and probably something else by the time you read this. Catch up with Boris Kovac today.

Press Quotes

"His composition, like a great release, possessed the spellbinding quality of great folk music: easy virtuosity, attention to the minutiae of expression, unembarrassing pathos... a deep base of audible, almost tactile emotion. Kovac slips easily across that twilight zone where contemporary composition and folk music touch."
Chris Cutler, "Resonance", London

"The music by Boris Kovac performed by Ritual Nova ensemble is a result of great composition and arrangement efforts and results in a great unity of the thousand year long Balkan culture, an outcome of an east-west fusion and contemporary music at the same time. Tunes inspired by folklore and influenced by Bartokianism, gypsy music, Orthodoxy and great Balkan composers of the last few centuries are deeply connected with their own culture.
(...) After the performance of this original and inciting music we are convinced that Boris Kovac is the most remarkable representative of Balkan music."
Alessandro Nobis, Verona / Italy

Management

Boris Kovac
eMail: boriskovac@inbox.com
www.boriskovac.net
Tel: +381 (0)21 826 018

Booking

Hungary
Laszlo Horvath/X Produkcio
eMail: folkeuro@axelero.hu

Scandinavia
Ken Day
D Tours
eMail: kenday@dtours.org

UK
Musicians Incorporated
Jason Walsh
eMail: jason@musiciansincorporated.com